Matthew 24:48
But if that evil servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’
Text-Critical English NT
In The King James Version
But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
In Context
47Truly I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions.
49and begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with the drunkards,
Cross References
Matthew 18:32Then the master summoned the servant and said to him, ‘Yoʋ evil servant! I forgave yoʋ all that debt because yoʋ begged me to do so.
Mark 7:21For from within, from the hearts of men, come evil thoughts, adultery, fornication, murder,
Luke 19:22The king said to him, ‘I will condemn yoʋ by the words coming out of yoʋr own mouth, yoʋ evil servant. Yoʋ knew, did yoʋ, that I was a stern man, taking out what I did not put in, and reaping what I did not sow?
Matthew Henry on Matthew 24:33-51
Parable of the Fig-Tree; Awful Predictions; The Duty of Watchfulness; The Good and Evil Steward. 32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: 33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. 34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. 35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. 36 But of that day and hour knoweth… Read the whole commentary →